Sentence examples for serious functions from inspiring English sources

The outfits must match perfectly with the event -- not too showy for those serious functions, not too plain for those meant to dazzle.

"In modern Labor politics, any serious, functioning nostalgia for the old is essentially, and rightly, gone.

But there was a perception that you couldn't fulfil a serious function if you were wearing a Santa hat".

When I heard about Louis Smith being banned from gymnastics for two months for mocking Muslim prayer I thought of Toni Morrison, who once said that "the very serious function of racism is distraction".

Although most punters may still regard them as casinos, they are serving a serious function: in the past few years the majority of listed companies in Hungary and Poland have been able to raise extra capital.For all their growth and activity, the exchanges remain tiny (see chart 4), raising doubts about their liquidity in the longer run.

These types of antennas can be used in household staples like DVD players or cable boxes, or serve a more serious function in military or government roles.

The function, the very serious function of racism is distraction.

But when you land in São Paulo you see right away that Brazil is a serious, developed, functioning country.

An innocent obsession with the degrees of undress at a serious literary function, is that all it takes to be considered sassy?

Accumulation and misincorporation of oxidative damaged 8-oxo-7,8-dihydroguanine triphosphates (8-oxo-dGTP) in genomic DNA may cause serious cellular function disorders.

More serious liver function abnormalities, arterial/thrombotic events, and hemorrhagic events have also been reported.